Posting in lieu of the leap second we're not having today (but visit the IERS web pages and note that in the past few weeks the earth's crust rotation has really slowed down a *lot*, so if it stays slow we're in for a bunch of leap seconds) ...
As overseer of the slitmask submission web interface for Keck's DEIMOS and LRIS spectrographs I find myself one of the few in the world who deals with a database and production pipeline which are regulated by the phase of the moon. Cutting slitlets in steel plates is cool tech, but it's not really art. Here http://www.alunatime.org/index.htm is a lunar-regulated notion which is art. If this catches on it could set calendars back almost to when the wolf suckled Romulus and Remus. -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
